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American Journal of Plant Sciences (AJPS) is an openly accessible journal published monthly. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of plant sciences. All manuscripts subm…
Alexander D. Pavlista, Dipak K. Santra, David D. Baltensperger
Increasing winter wheat seedling growth would make it a better winter cover crop. Gibberellic acid (GA 3 ) seed treat ment may accomplish this by stimulating stem growth. A bioassay, mimicking field conditions, could determine the relative sensitivity of conv…
Bhagirath S. Chauhan, Jhoana L. Opeña
In the Philippines, rice monoculture systems are common. Compared to these systems, the rice-soybean cropping sys tem may prove more water-efficient and there is a trend of increasing soybean area in the response to water scarcity and need for crop diversific…
Eszter Cseh, András Péter Takács, Richard Gáborjányi, László Palkovics, László Kocsis
Hungarian isolates of Grapevine leafroll associated virus 1 and 3 (GLRaV-1, GLRaV-3) were tested using serological (DAS-ELISA) and molecular (RT-PCR) methods. Five hundred bp long PCR products of the part of HSP70 gene of one serologically positive GLRaV-1 an…
Melur Kodandaram Raghunath, Karaba N. Nataraja, Jyothi Sainath Meghana, Radha Sivarajan Sajeevan, Mala V. Rajan, Syed Mashayak Hussaine Qadri
Adventitious bud induction and plantlet regeneration w ere studied in a popular mulberry variety, V1 using leaf as an explant. Fully expanded leaf explants were cultured on Murashige and Skoog’s (MS) medium supplemented with thidi azuron (TDZ) (0.5-4.0 mg/l),…
Andrés J. Cortés
Phylogeographic methods provide the tools to accurately access the geographic origin and diversification of crop spe cies. In the present commentary, I urge the common bean community to face those methods and a tree-thinking mental ity with regards to the lon…
Anjali Aggarwal, Reeta Kumari, Neeti Mehla, Deepali, Rishi Pal Singh, Sonal Bhatnagar, Kameshwar Sharma, Kuldeep Sharma, Vashishtha Amit, Brijesh Rathi
Ozone (O 3 ) is a stratospheric layer that plays important role in providing support to humans for their survival. It is an essential factor for many global, biological and environmental phenomena. The ultra-violet (UV) rays emitted from sun are captured by o…
Eman M. Fakhry
The adsorption of fast yellow dye onto dried biomass Padina pavonica was studied in batch experiments. The amount of dye adsorbed (mg/g) was increased with the increase in initial dye concentration. An equilibrium time of about 90 min was achieved for dye con…
Junxi Li, Chido Wee, Bokyoon Sohn
We investigated the feasibility of using ammonium- and potassium-loaded zeolite (NK-Z) as carriers for fertilizer and for slow release of nitrogen (N) and potassium (K). Plant growth response and soil analysis were performed. The results indicated an increase…
Sasidharan Sreedevi, Sreedharan Sajith, Kulangara Nanu Remani, Sailas Benjamin
We evaluated the effects of Ralstonia solanacearum ( Rs ) induced biotic stress in three mangroves, viz ., Avicennia offi cinalis , Derris trifoliata and Excoecaria agallocha . These plants were grown in pots as well as hydroponic systems with sufficient cont…
K. S. Krishnamurthy, S. J. Ankegowda, V. Srinivasan, S. Hamza
Alternate bearing habit, a common phenomenon prevalent in some of the fruit trees is observed in black pepper variety Panniyur-1 also. In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the role of carbohydrates, mineral nutrients and plant hormones (IAA and z…
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